Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:50:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r51364 - head/share/xml Message-ID: <201801041750.w04HoR2T089268@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: imp Date: Thu Jan 4 17:50:27 2018 New Revision: 51364 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51364 Log: Add news blurb about the micro-architecture attacks driven by speculative execution on Intel, Arm and AMD cpus. Submitted by: pi@ (with language tweaks) Reviewed by: brd@ Modified: head/share/xml/news.xml Modified: head/share/xml/news.xml ============================================================================== --- head/share/xml/news.xml Thu Jan 4 16:44:30 2018 (r51363) +++ head/share/xml/news.xml Thu Jan 4 17:50:27 2018 (r51364) @@ -29,6 +29,27 @@ </cvs:keyword> <year> + <name>2018</name> + <month> + <name>1</name> + <day> + <name>4</name> + + <event> + <p>About the <a href="https://meltdownattack.com/">Meltdown</a>; + and <a href="https://spectreattack.com/">Spectre</a>; attacks: + FreeBSD was made aware of the problems in late December 2017. + We're working with CPU vendors and the published papers on + these attacks to mitigate them on FreeBSD. Due to the + fundamental nature of the attacks, no estimate is yet + available for the publication date of patches.</p> + </event> + </day> + </month> + + </year> + + <year> <name>2017</name> <month>
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